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Is it possible, that old smartphone becomes slow simply because it is old?
Performance has nothing to do with battery voltage. The reason is that the flash memory is "worn" and therefore slower and less responsive.
My Nexus 7 (1st generation) is also very slow now and I ...
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If I reset my phone, will it also TRIM the fragmented eMMC?
Android supports fstrim but it only works if the phone is idle for a long time while charging
It's not so. On newer versions, Android runs fstrim with a daily schedule, provided that the conditions ...
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Should I get A1 or A2 spec'd Micro SD card for my phone?
TL;DR: Get an A1 card unless you know for sure that your workload greatly benefits from Command Queuing (CQ) and your host hardware supports CQ.
Long answer:
After looking around a lot it seems that ...
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Approaches for diagnosing input lag / performance problems
Assuming your lag is not caused by resource hogging malware (detection and removal covered in malware tag), possible causes (discounting infamous touchwiz :), could be
CPU loading
Disk I/O
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CPU-Z shows 8 cores, but 4 of them are stopped
Is there any way of activating all cores?
You can't.
The hardware is not designed to have all 8 cores active. The reason for this is that this Octacore CPU is actually based on big.LITTLE technology,...
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Android's native process management vs. Greenify
From the Android developer site:
If an activity has lost focus but is still visible (that is, a new non-full-sized or transparent activity has focus on top of your activity), it is paused. A ...
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Why android OS performance is not too efficient compare to iOS?
Because the devices that have hanging problems are not the ones with better processors and more RAM. Unlike iPhone, where there's only the expensive devices, Android runs on a whole range of devices. ...
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Why android OS performance is not too efficient compare to iOS?
The problem is specialization!
Apple's iOS is optimized for a small set of specialized Apple processors, which are ARM-based but because of e.g. custom extensions are able to do a lot more than the ...
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Android's native process management vs. Greenify
Android actually closes some background apps, but only when system ressources are missing (you open a massive game, for example)
Greenify differ from the Android memory management by the fact that ...
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What is the initial TCP Receive Window size in Android?
I can answer you about TCP WINDOW SIZE and TCP WINDOWSCALE fields as they appear in the TCP header.
Initial TCP Window Size should be 0x3908 = 14600, at least it is what I found so far using several ...
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Why are apps slowing down my phone just by being installed?
Phones use Solid State Drives (SSDs) for storage instead of traditional Hard Drives (HDDs). This is because carrying and jostling HDDs can cause hardware problems.
Solid State Drives, however, get ...
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Are there any downsides or risks to limiting background processes?
I do like the earlier poster's comment about the Nokia from 1995. Although the moderators don't know how to laugh every once in a while. I found it absolutely hilarious.
I Keep my phone the 4 ...
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Does buying thousands of apps (but not installing them) cause bloat in Android?
No, they are not installed on the device... Your device doesn't even "know" you purchased the app. It has absolutely no effect on your device at all and your purchase history is stored on Google ...
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Compatibility Feasibility Speed and use of High Capacity MicroSd Card for adaptable swapping and linking apps?
Your device is very old, which most likely means that it does not have exfat support.
Compatibility should not be a problem, as every card and reader are usually compatible with each other, as long ...
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sluggish performance due to mmcqd CPU usage
Yes, when you see mmcqd on the top-3 processes most of the time you can assure there is a bottleneck created on any storage/flash. You can check that fact easily at the developer options in Android (...
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My device is getting slow, apps start misbehaving/crashing. What can I do?
How to Speed up Slow Android
Remember the day you bought your android? It wasn't slow. It was so fast. What happened? Did the silicon get slower? Did the bits get clogged? Of course not. You're just ...
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How to make camera start faster
I have done a serious research on this topic and i found that all device has an opening lag and it is independent of your camera applications i.e, it is hardware dependent. It(the lag) will be keep ...
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Is it possible, that old smartphone becomes slow simply because it is old?
It's possible that as you use your phone, the apps themselves becomes slower, because it is managing more of your data.
A music app may work blazing fast when you've only got ten music in your ...
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Is it possible, that old smartphone becomes slow simply because it is old?
You've likely been updating the apps, and they're using more bloated APIs.
I, personally, don't see a reason every app needs to carry Unicode support, for example.
Facebook would be one of the ...
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What Google Apps can I disable?
Generally speaking, any system app you can disable can safely be disabled. Core system apps will have the disable button greyed out. You can see this if you open App info for the Settings app itself.
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Is force stopping an app equivalent to uninstalling it, as far as increasing the performance of a phone is concerned?
In some cases, yes, if your performance issue is not caused by low storage space. The improvement may be temporary, however, as apps can be restarted if they are registered for certain actions or ...
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Why does any app having an active overlay is causing low frame rates?
Deafult options, no osd, max smoothness
Deafult options, osd, max choppiness
With disable HW overlays I get average smoothness w/ and w/o osd apps.
I think that only the last app requesting an hw ...
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Android Versions Size Vs Features
For versions above 2.3.6, you could check the Google Developers page for the stock images for the nexus phones. They could provide a context for the sizes of pure Android.
There is another site i ...
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Locking the speed of the cpu on an android phone
I am not aware of CPUControl's settings but you can try some other applications to lock the speed. You can try KernelAduiter to perform this and many more operations.
You can change the CPU speed by ...
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Is it necessary to update Android apps?
If you use Mobile Data for update purposes, then it is better to update Google services and the messaging services only, but if you have access to WiFi then keep your apps updated.
Battery ...
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CPU-Z shows 8 cores, but 4 of them are stopped
That is perfectly fine. Why would 8 cores be active if you are in cpu-z app. Four cores are let's say active all time, and other four are jumping in if needed, cpu-z don't need 8 cores trust me. Try ...
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CPU-Z shows 8 cores, but 4 of them are stopped
It all depends on how the apps that are running are written and if they can actually make use of multiple cores.
Even if you are running a heavy application, if it cant make use of all the cores, the ...
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Does downloading too many games slow down a device?
When you download and install a game on your device, the data is stored within internal storage. When you run the game, it loads all the assets into RAM, which is Random Access Memory. Accessing RAM ...
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How come Android can support 2 apps in split screen but not in background?
On Android, only 1 app can be in the active (or "resumed") state, but when the app is still visible but not currently the active app, it will be in the paused state.
So when you use multi ...
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For Android devices, is internal storage memory typically faster, slower, or equal to microSD card storage?
The internal flash is usually way faster than an SD-card. In your example, the Samsung Galaxy S10 uses UFS 2.1 storage for interfacing with the internal flash chip.
UFS 2.1 for the 1TB storage ...
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